American public to hear from. Me, john for having and i watch the entire interview and my reaction as an view thewas to credibility of john bolton and to look at it more from the standpoint of whether or not he could prove his claims and what evidence he provided to support those claims. What i found from a perspective of looking at fact and evidence sherry support and those types ary support was, what i thought john bolton was doing was putting out bold assertions. Conversationof elements that say i think or my perception was. He did not provide any sort of fact or proof other than this was my perception. Obviously, he and the president have had a lot of very different perspectives on foreign policy. That was the substance of their differences and why he was ultimately fired. I did not find it persuasive that this was some sort of bombshell that it was promoted to be. I found from a credibility standpoint, of course john bolton has had a lot of credibility issues in the past. He was not able to be confirmed by the senate. But also the fact that he went against his nondisclosure agreement. He did not go through the process for vetting his book and was willing to put National Security at risk just to self promote and publish his book. I think it is a serious credibility issue. The president comes out looking really well compared to the gossip interview last night. Host the president himself weighed in on john bolton the First Time Since the interview aired last night. This was him about a half an hour ago on twitter. I gave john bolton who was incapable of being Senate Confirmed because he was considered a wacko, a chance. I always liked hearing different points of view. He turned out to be incompetent and a liar. See the judges opinion, classified information. You mentioned lots of credibility issues in the past, should he not have been brought into this job in the first place . Guest the president has every. Pportunity who he chooses as his advisers is his prerogative. He gave john bolton the opportunity to come in. He ultimately saw that that personnel decision did not work out and fired him. I think that it was wise of the president to look at someone who had a different view but then ultimately said it did not work out. I worked directly with the president as one of his personal attorneys. And he does absolutely want viewpoints from a lot of different perspectives. He takes that into consideration and he takes a lot of advice from a lot of different voices. That is one of the things i sincerely respect about him. He is willing to listen to people who disagree with his First Impression or first instinct. I think he was absolutely right withy it did not work out john bolton. Bolton came across last night as a disgruntled exemployee who was selfserving. Host do you think john bolton should be concerned about legal action from the Justice Department or from the president . Guest i will not get ahead of the president on that. I think the judge, in his although all of the books were already distributed and so that harm had been incurred, he was very clear that certainly civil and potential criminal penalties for the violation of the nondisclosure agreement as well as National Security interests is on the table. Host jenna ellis, our guest. Campaign Senior Advisor. Epublicans, 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000. , 202 7488002. One of the headlines coming out of the rally in oklahoma, were you at that rally in oklahoma . Guest i was not. I was doing a lot of media in d. C. I got to watch it on television, like the now over 10 Million Viewers that have watched it, not only live but on our cap Plane Campaign platforms. Campaign platforms. Host your thoughts about the crowd size . Of a 12,000s more person crowd and roughly 15,000 or more that showed up. Thousands were turned away because of some of the complications of getting them through the gates. Size,k that the crowd considering all of the obstacles was fantastic for the president. Especially compared to the events joe biden has held, where he gets even more than 1000 in a room, that would be a red letter day for him. I think the crowd size is something the democrats are trying to pivot to to make it is not this there is not this wonderful momentum for the president. That is simply not true. You can see it with the crowd. I have been too many rallies with the president. My favorite moment is when he takes the stage to proud to be an american and we all come together and he says with one nation and one voice, we can accomplish anything together as americans. I think it was a wonderful kickoff to his Reelection Campaign. Host the Washington Post said blame brad pascal for setting up High Expectations ahead of the rally. His republicans mused about future. Have you heard any thing anything about possible changes to the campaign . Guest no. I thought brad pascal did a great job. There are some people who have fraudulent tickets and they tried to inflate this inflate the numbers. That happens all the time. He has done a really great job. I think that it is trying to stir up drama. Everyone wants to say that any of the Senior Advisors that works with the president wants to stir up injury. That is not something that is going on. Host another Supreme Court decision day. Your expectations for the remaining cases after what you saw from some of the highprofile cases last week . Guest last week, i am glad you brought that up. I was very surprised and, frankly, appalled by chief Justice Roberts with the daca decision and binding future administrations on an illegal act of a prior administration. The daca decision should not have gone the way that it did. It reinforces the fact we need to elect President Trump for another four years. That is the entire point of an independent judiciary, is to say that they will look at the constitution, the law and apply it fairly. That is not what happened last week in either of the two key decisions that were rendered. My hope is that the Supreme Court will actually do its job and will hand down the remaining cases in a fair and constitutionally accurate way. Host charlie eastman, a writer in texas and columnist for the Washington Times said not the court that conservatives had in mind. The celebration of Supreme Court appointment was premature, specifically looking to neil gorsuch in the lgbtq workplace rights case last week and Justice Kavanaugh on a plan to parenthood planned parenthood decision to review whether. Tates can block abortion specifically pointing to those two decisions with the concerns he has with the justices President Donald Trump picked. Do you think he picked the right man for the job . Guest neil gorsuch comes from my home state of colorado. I was proud of that judicial pic. I supported both of the confirmations of Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh. Both of them have had a wide record of a really good opinion rendering. So i think that to say that it was the wrong pic just for 1 pick for one or two decisions is unfair. President trump took into has advisement his advisement going into 2016, which is the first time a president revealed who he might pick and had put together that list. That was with the input of conservative organizations like the federal society. What the president has committed himself to his creating a new list and issuing that before september 1. He tweeted that out after the title vii decision. I think that he is going to hear from other groups and other interested parties that will get together a really good list. This is why we need a conservative court, so that when one or two justices who are otherwise excellent get a decision wrong and are on the wrong side of the constitution, then they will always be in the minority. , that wasvii decision a completely inappropriate expansion of the definition of. Ex in title vii congressest is only purview to expand that definition to include Sexual Orientation and gender identity within title vii. You cannot redefine the term sex as congress originally contemplated it. I think that is hopefully something that will arrive back into the Supreme Court. Once we have another four years of donald trump and a much stronger conservative majority. Host jenna ellis, a trump Senior Advisor with the trump 2020 campaign. Time to let me step back and let you chat with the viewers. Alexander is a first from virginia. Independent, good morning. Guest good morning. Caller thank you for cspan, first off. , yourst question, now being the senior Legal Advisor for the Trump Campaign, is why is there a sudden change of viewpointth trumps on john bolton . And theauded by you all gop as a whole. He has been a member, a pretty hawkish member of the gop for quite some time. I am just really interested in out,after this book comes the change of opinion comes very swiftly. It seems to me and a lot of other people who have been paying attention to this whole Dumpster Fire that the trumpstration has been, re people thathighe he dragged through the mud alf after aligns get line gets crossed. Guest if i can jump in and answer your question, i would disagree with your characterization of the administration and also that this is something that was quick or swift or just, after boltons book release. Certainly, again, the president of the United States, whoever holds that office has the legal and constitutional prerogative to a and then dismiss anyone that he prefers. President trump gave him gave john bolton the opportunity to serve in his ministration and it did not work out. He dismissed him and preferred to put someone else in that capacity. That was over a year ago. To say that this was suddenly swift is definitely a mischaracterization. Maybe it isnt true that you have been paying that close petition attention if you have been calling this swift. Host leo, republican, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Miss alice, i am going to speaks lis, i ams el going to speak specifically to california. I have been here for 50 years. The problem with california is we have more undocumented voters that have signed up for motor voter. We have more noncitizens than germany, france and england. 9 million people. They have signed up, they have drivers licenses. Created what i think is the super majority in california. At the end of the last election, seven or eight republicans were ahead in the polls, substantially. By the time they got done collecting ballots, all of them lost their election. The other thing i want to point out, i think this is very important. This ballot harvesting is a fraud. Clinton, andill george soros have combined to put in 75 million. The state of california put in 50 million to hire 100,000 ballot collectors. These ballot collectors are going doortodoor, collecting ballots for democrats. As far as the electoral colony host we will let jenna ellis respond. Guest i appreciate the opportunity to address Election Integrity. Joined a campaign has correlated effort you can find on Election Integrity called protect the boat. Com. See where we are fighting. California is one of the states where gavin newsom is trying to unilaterally expand and implement mailin voting under the pretext of covid. Certainly, he does not have the authority to do that through executive orders. We mean democrats are harvesting more power than is provided to them in their executive capacity, trying to undermine the Election Integrity and the sanctity of the ballot, moving forward into november. Certainly we are fighting that. This is not a partisan issue. Everyone said beacons show and everyone should be concerned people who are ineligible are voting. Anyone who can vote should vote but vote once. Things like ballot harvesting, certainly we are fighting for these issues. President trump tweeted on that just this morning. Bill barr addressed that yesterday on fox news, as well. Talking about from his perspective and the department of justice, talking about how ballot integrity is right for fraud because of what the democrats are doing. Is important that every concerned citizen get involved and make sure that your local precinct, you are volunteering on election day. You are making sure to get out and vote. Go to protect the vote. Com to see where the Trump Campaign is fighting these important issues. Host you say right for fraud. Our last guest was talking about voting and ballot issues. And brought up repeatedly that there is no evidence that ,assive fraud has taken place in a study of one billion ballots cast over years, Something Like 30 or 31 instances of ballot fraud were found. Campaign. 2he trump for that actually happening . Guest first, i think it depends on your definition of massive. It does not have to be millions and millions of ballots. It only has to be enough to tip the scales. Any instance of ballot fraud is concerning. What is so significant about this and why we say it is right for fraud is because if there is for fraud is because if there is any inthat they can wiggle illegitimate and fraudulent votes, that is undermining the sanctity of Election Integrity. This is a nonpartisan issue that we should not allow those things to happen. We need to protect the ballot box. We need to have more protections. Likestics shows things voter identification or signature matching or making sure any of those types of identification and security measures prevents anyone who is legally eligible to vote from gaining access to the ballot, while the inverse is true that if you take away those protections, those are where those instances that we do have and do see that are on record and are currently being prosecuted, and also in the past, those instances up to roger let fraudulent balance to happen. Certainly, mailin ballots under the pretext of covid are one of the most important issues of the 2020 election. That is the president ial election all the way down to tickets in the states. Those are important elections. Host this is isaac, a democrat. Good morning. Caller i wanted to ask you a question. Why did you only allow republicans and independents to comment in the last segment . Host people have complained that too Many Democrats have called in. People have complained that too many republicans have called in. I think that means we are doing something right. What we do is try to rotate the calls as they come. Do you have a question for jenna ellis . Caller i want to know why bill barr is carrying the water for donald trump. Can you find out why they are carrying the water for donald trump . Guest we are certainly not carrying the water for donald trump. I was a supporter well before i worked on the campaign. I was a proud woman proud woman who supported donald trump in 2016. I was clear then, in colorado, where i was located during the 2016 election, that i have probably been a supporter of donald trump. I am working for him and the campaign because i absolutely believe he is the breast best present we have had in president we have had in modern history. Making sure that he is keeping America Great in terms of protecting and preserving our union, our american way of life and all the things he has done for minority communities. Everything he has done to build jobs and moving ahead into 2021, he has built such a great economy and he is going to do it again. If you look at the differences between what he has accomplished will accomplishing and accomplish compared to joe biden, who has his own Staff Members who are supporting things like defunding the police and democrats who are allowing anarchists to run wild, that goes against our american constitution and american way of life. If you look at the differences honestly and fairly, rather than just believing the mainstream media, i think you will be convinced as well that donald trump is the best choice for america. Host in terms of what the president will do, a story coming out of the president s comments. This is from reuters. Reston trump said he would announce new restrictions on visas within a couple of days to block the entry of certain Foreign Workers to protect americans struggling with the job market. You have any information on what that will be . What those restrictions will be and what when we will see them . Guest i think he will be forthcoming in the next couple of days. I will not get ahead of the white house on announcing those policies. Host dan is next out of louisiana. An independent. Guest good morning. Caller how are you doing . I heard you say donald trump takes a lot of advice from different people when he makes his decisions. I would like to hear an example when things moment worked out well and a moment where he took advice from a lot of people and he it did not work out well. My conversations with the president our attorneyclient privilege. I cannot get into specific examples. I can tell you that it is Public Record that the president has said himself that he does take advice from a wide variety of advisors. I think his track record in terms of who he has put into the white house clearly shows this. Again, while i would love to get into some of those explanations, i will not be the next john bolton that talks about things ahead of time. I will tell you that i am really looking forward to, in future years, being able to hopefully talk about the specific examples. I have so much respect for President Trump and how he does seek advice from so many different people and ultimately is a strong leader, who takes all of the information and then makes a decision. That is when a commanderinchief does. Host are you saying you might write a book one day . Guest we will see. Host south bend, indiana. This is deborah, a republican. Caller good morning. How are you . Guest great. Good to hear you. Caller now, i wont say that i am a republican. I am a voter. I vote. I vote in the local Election School board and everything. Me to a has gotten now, where i am like this tired thatm so you are caused me trying to take my courage away, dealing with diseases, politics or anything else that is going on in life. You are trying to make me afraid of my neighbor. I dont want to do that. Remember, i am a voter. Im not sure there was a question in that. I would say that i am not sure specifically what you are referring to. Of course we value all voters and voices across the country. Hopefully your vote will remain republican with President Trump in 2020. Host linda in minnesota, democrat, good morning. I appreciate you taking calls from everybody today and every day. Host thanks. Caller to this lady here, i can close my eyes, honestly, and we could actually hear kayleigh mcenany. They must be like twin sisters. They must have guest i dont think it is fair for you to have personal character attacks. I highly respect the press secretary. We both went to loss will. We have straight, informed legal appearing ins. To come on and simply opinions. Her on and simply attack character, that is inappropriate. Caller the majority of the American People dont think that bolton or trump has zero credibility. That hehese fine people has hired, all of these great people. The only person he has hired that is qualified is stormy daniels. Guest [laughter] again, that is absolutely uninformed. I think you should go back and read the constitution, which supports the idea of a citizen president. And someone who is our commanderinchief that does not have to have any prior government experience, military experience. Wisdom founders in their anticipated and contemplated someone like President Trump, who comes from the private sector and was successful in business and has a true heart for america and the american way of life to then come into the capacity of the commander in make thoseat he can decisions on behalf of we the people. I think that is a strong reason why we the people elected him in 2016 and i am confident we will do so again in 2020. Host scott in connecticut, independent. You are next. Am an independent but i love donald trump. He is the best thing that has happened to this country. Even better than ronald reagan. I want to say john bolton is like a little kid in a candy store that cannot have any candy. And he is lashing out like a little child. Another thing i had to say is connecticut, in connecticut, they are giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. I know this because i work with a lot of them in a landscaping situation. And they are laughing about it, that they can vote even though they are not legal here. And they vote democrat. They all vote democrat. Governorship. All of the illegals are voting in connecticut with their drivers license. It is a big joke. With the whole hispanic population that is here, illegally. What do you have to say to that . I tried to contact donald trump but nobody seems to want to do anything about it. Guest that is a great question. We certainly are aware. I can tell you i have had multiple conversations with the thisdent, personally and is an issue he cares very deeply about. It is embedded in at least three different places in our constitution about why that fundamental participation in our republic is so important. Vote. Com tot the see where the rnc and Trump Campaign is fighting. We are fighting on the ground in multiple states, challenging all of these democrat policies and things they are trying to force through to remove sections from the ballot box. I can tell you confidently that this is a really important issue to the president. Host you said a minute ago that the president will ring reelection win reelection. I am wondering your thoughts on the state of the race right now. Fox news has joe biden 12 points ahead of the president , nationally. The other from portapique act biden eightas joe points ahead, nationally. Guest i addressed this with john scott on the fox report. It is amazing that democrats are putting so much weight in the polls yet again. I think that they are not learning from their history of 2016, where so many polls had Hillary Clinton so far ahead and she would win in a landslide and that did not happen. We are looking forward to another term and four more years with donald trump. If you look at the difference from tulsa, oklahoma, and seeing how many people love and support the president and how much momentum is behind him, how much fun the campaign has been able to provide. He was the first president in American History to announce his Reelection Campaign the day after he was sworn into office. We have been campaigning since then. And i think that there is so much momentum that we see all across the country. That motivation and momentum is not there for joe biden. Said fromresident tulsa is he is putting joe biden on notice. Today is the 81st day that joe biden has not held a press conference. I dont know why he wont. He wont submit to questions that are from the press. Even if he wants to virtually campaign, why he wont do that. He is definitely hiding in his basement. I think the American People see that. They see that donald trump has so much motivation behind him. I think the Trump Campaign is confident heading into the last threemonth of the election. Host are you saying people should disregard polls for the rest of the election . What if there is a pull down the line that has President Trump ahead . Guest there have been a lot of poles that show President Trump ahead per die dont put a lot of stock in that because they are so easily manipulated. If you look at the crosssection and cross, they can be easily manipulated in terms of representation and who they are pulling. Where it shows trump ahead versus joe biden, i think we can look confidently at how many people show up at President Trumps events, how money people are donating to his campaign and how many people are voicing support for him. That support is not behind joe biden. We will see that also reflect at the only poll that really metals matters, which is the ballot box. Host time for just a couple more calls with jenna ellis, joining us from our studio downstairs on the bottom floor of our building at cspan. At some point, someday, we would love to have you at the desk when we are able to do it. Bradenton, republican. Caller hello. Guest good morning. Caller i am a republican and i have strong criticisms of this president. The way he speaks and acts is embarrassing for the country, i think. I want to ask about his rally in tulsa, oklahoma. That he ishis speech in favor of people owing to jail for one year for burning the american flag. Is the president aware that the Supreme Court already ruled that is unconstitutional . As the Legal Advisor, do you know that . Second question, i know you sued cnn for a pole. Guest let me stop you. We did not sue cnn. That was misinformation perpetuated on twitter. We sent a cease and desist letter. What we sued them for was a false and defamatory statement that was false and with actual malice that was cast in an opinion piece. Ago piece was filed months and well before the poll came out. So, get your facts straight, please. Of course, President Trump is aware of the first amendment. I think what he was saying to his crowd of supporters who cheered him on is that he is so proud to be an american and he absolutely hates, like i do, i hate to see people burn the flight. Flag. Disrespectful it is disrespect. It is desecrating a symbol of freedom. I support his statement. That would have to be something that would have to go through congress and the legislature. He perfectly understands that. I think the point he was making is that he is proud to be an american and all of us should be proud to be an american. ,ost this is mary, richland washington. Caller good morning. I really liked cspan. My question to you is how much does it cost the American People , when President Trump goes out and have these things, with the security people, and all of the different people that have , nobodytching his back hardly showed up . Guest thats not true. Over 12,000 people showed up according to the United States secret service. I would encourage you to get your facts straight and not just read the mainstream media. They are not really journalists. They are activists and they have an antifrom bias and they are trying to misinform you. The Campaign Paid to put on these events. That is not taxpayer dollars. Kets are will have to pay to come to a President Trump rally. That is something where he has kept his promise. I have every confidence he will keep every promise heading into his next term. Host jenna ellis, a senior Legal Advisor from the trump 2020 campaign. Her toward her is that cspans washington journal every day. Taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discussing policy issues that impact you. Coming up this morning, former Homeland Security secretary tom ridge on voting Security Issues in the upcoming november elections and we will talk about the current Supreme Court term with the Constitutional Accountability Centers elizabeth why trip. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Live tuesday on the cspan networks, the house energy and Commerce Committee here some dr. Anthony fauci come director Robert Redfield and dr. Stephen hahn, on the federal response to the pandemic at 11 00 a. M. On cspan. At 2 30, the hearing on the sovereign immunities act and state lawsuit against china seeking damages for the spread of covid19. En cspan2 at 10 00 a. M. , the Senate Returns to continue work on the nomination of cory wilson to the fifth circuit court. The Washington Post interviews former National Security advisor john bolton at 1 00 p. M. Talking about his new book. On cspan three, the Senate HealthCommittee Meets at 10 00 a. M. To examine Lessons Learned from covid19 and to prepare for the next pandemic. At 2 00 p. M. A house subcommittee hearing on worker access to childcare during the pandemic. Next, a hearing on researching and repurchasing drugs for treating coronavirus. Experts testified before a house science, space and Technology Subcommittee on some of the risks involved in expediting the approval process for drugs. The doctors discussed the challenges brought on by the president s promotion of the drug hydroxychloroquine